linux install question (fwd)

[taalebi at ai.mit.edu (Ali Taalebi)]

You'll be much better off installing RedHat 7.2 instead.
Lots of bug fixes, new features, new drivers, ...

>>Ali

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   From: "Avram Aelony" <avramaelony at hotmail.com>
   To: jabr at blu.org
   Subject: linux install question
   Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 21:12:24 -0500


   hi! My name is Avram Aelony, I found your email via linux.org under 
   'Boston
   Linux and Unix User Group'.  I have a linux install question and I am 
   hoping
   perhaps you can point me in the direction of a reasonable solution.

   I have a Red Hat Linux 6.2 Version CD along with a boot disk.
   I would like to install linux onto an NEC Versa 2655CD laptop (vintage 
   circa
   1996) that previously had win95 and has been completely fdisked clean.

   With the linux boot floppy and install CD, I get prompted to press <enter> 
   or text <enter> or expert <enter>.  (At this point, typing by the user 
   still
   gets displayed onto the screen.)
   I have tried the first to choices, the result is the same: things begin to 
   load appropriately until a graphic menu displaying language choices for 
   the
   installation appears.  Normally, I would think that a mouse or keyboard 
   response would be captured and thus the install could continue with the 
   next
   screen.

   What does occur instead is that user input of any kind (keyboard input, 
   mouse movements, shouting, etc..) no longer registers with the laptop 
   display screen.
   Thus my install attempts are halted there, unable to proceed.

   I would very much appreciate any thoughts you might have in helping me 
   with
   getting past this point & installing Linux.


   thanks in advance,
   Avram